diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index b276b60..b8c3393 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ POM_NAME=EitherNet
 POM_ARTIFACT_ID=eithernet
 POM_PACKAGING=jar
 GROUP=com.slack.eithernet
-VERSION_NAME=1.7.0
+VERSION_NAME=1.8.0-SNAPSHOT
 POM_DESCRIPTION=A pluggable sealed API result type for modeling Retrofit responses.
 POM_URL=https://github.com/slackhq/eithernet/
 POM_SCM_URL=https://github.com/slackhq/eithernet/